Yang-Mills thermodynamics: The preconfining phase
Ralf Hofmann
TL;DR
This paper reviews recent nonperturbative findings on the thermodynamics of SU(2) and SU(3) Yang-Mills theories in their preconfining phase, emphasizing conceptual understanding over technical details.
Contribution
It provides a summarized explanation of nonperturbative results for Yang-Mills thermodynamics in the preconfining phase, clarifying key concepts and derivations.
Findings
Nonperturbative thermodynamic results for SU(2) and SU(3) theories
Insights into the preconfining (magnetic) phase
Conceptual clarification of derivations
Abstract
We summarize recent nonperturbative results obtained for the thermodynamics of an SU(2) and an SU(3) Yang-Mills theory being in its preconfining (magnetic) phase. We focus on an explanation of the involved concepts and derivations, and we avoid technical details.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics · Theoretical and Computational Physics · Quantum chaos and dynamical systems